Farin Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 I want to learn a bit more and maybe some others wouldn't mind that as well What are some great Jazz artists and tracks? And when it comes to Fusion: what are the best genres? I already know I like acid jazz eg. looking forward to some posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 I mean, Zappa released some good jazz fusion stuff. Chase is pretty good, like Chicago but with more jazz in it. I think King Crimson did some jazz fusion too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 And when it comes to Fusion: what are the best genres? For starters, one of my favorite Jazz Fusion groups is Return to Forever. One of the few jazz supergroups with Chick Corea on keyboards, Lenny White on drums and percussion, Stanley Clarke on bass and Al Di Meola on guitar. Each one went on to a successful solo career after Return to Forever disbanded. Here's Romantic Warrior off their 1976 album of the same name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chutzpah Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 "Spyro Gyra" "Return to Forever"- very good stuff "Jeff Beck"- There and back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viaene Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 I own a few albums from Coltrane, highly recommended if you like up tempo jazz. Wiki calls it Hard bop jazz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted October 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Thanks for the suggestions so far, I've listened to "Romantic Warrior" and "Blue Train" by Coltrane... good stuff But I admit, I'm more of a fan of the dynamics of playing together - as opposed to different instruments taking turns for their 5 minute solos What about Miles Davis or Herbie Hancock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Everybody's first thought with Miles is the album Kind of Blue with Coltrane on tenor sax. Round Midnight is another Miles highlight. or Someday My Prince Will Come Miles surrounded himself with quality musicians and created So Many quality albums from different periods in his career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 But I admit, I'm more of a fan of the dynamics of playing together - as opposed to different instruments taking turns for their 5 minute solos Jazz is everyone plays together, then they take their turns at solos, then they come back and play together to close the song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted October 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 really, that's a standard? ah well, in most cases I didn't notice it negatively, so I guess it's alright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Back in the late 1950's during the New York Bebop ascension the West Coast Jazz scene was developing also with artists like... Chet Baker - Let's Get Lost Bill Holman & Richie Kamuca - Star Eyes and Wes Montgomery - Unit 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 A rock group with jazz leanings back in the late '60's was Blodwyn Pig with guitarist Mick Abrahams leading Jack Lancaster on reeds and flutes, plus the rest of the quartet on songs like... Leave It With Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berjo1429030949 Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 'Return to Forever' is good. If you're more into the guitar, 'Al Di Meola' is pretty good too. His first four albums would be my only recommendation. Oh, but yet I like his "Soaring Through a Dream" album from '85 but a bit of a different beast from his earlier material. As for 'Herbie Hancock', I prefer "Empyrean Isles" from '64 but its hard bop and not fusion like the other bands mentioned in thread. I'm surprised nobody mentioned 'Mahavishnu Orchestra'. That was John McLaughlin's vehicle which also included Jan Hammer and Narada Michael Walden among others. "The Inner Mounting Flame" and "Between Nothingness & Eternity" would be my suggestions. Many prefer "Birds of Fire" but its all a matter of preference. 'Weather Report' - "Black Market" from '76. However, its not like their earlier works and also noted (though I don't think was every substantiated aka just hearsay) that jazz purists digressed. Then there's 'Soft Machine' - Holdsworth was in the band for a bit (the 70s). "Bundles" from '75 is pretty good but more of jazz-rock. Anyway, others have already been suggested and I'm having a big brain fart at moment lol. Oh, for Jeff Back, go with "Wired." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Another avenue you might want to explore is the Stan Getz / Antonio Carlos Jobim Brazilian or Bossa Nova jazz of the early --> mid 1960's with cuts like... The Girl From Ipanema Desafinado Agua de Beber and Corcovado Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Niacin Medeski Martin and Wood Marcus Miller Bela Fleck & The Flecktones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 George Benson is a really good jazz fusion guitarist. He's nto really jazz/rock fusion though, he's jazz/pop fusion, which is usually pretty bad but Benson does it really well. Check out my two favorite songs by him (the 2nd one was a hit in 70's I think) "Affirmation" "Breezin" I also used to be really into the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I don't listen to them much anymore but not for any reason besides the fact that there's a lot to listen to and not a lot of time! John McGlaughlin is great. "Meeting of the Spirits" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Oh, didn't see that this thread was also about jazz in general. Well my favorite jazz album for sure is "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane. "A Love Supreme" "Giant Steps" is a great album by John Coltrane. This song is so crazy. "Giant Steps" I also really like the pianist Bill Evans. Bill Evans - "Autumn Leaves" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 The Crusaders Stomp And Buck Dance Chain Reaction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 . . . Ripplegroove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted October 31, 2009 Report Share Posted October 31, 2009 Blue Note Records assemble quite a line-up with artists like... Moanin' - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Song for My Father - Horace Silver Blues Walk - Lou Donaldson Sidewinder - Lee Morgan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 It ain't what they call Rock & Roll [smaller]Not The usual suspects[/smaller] Don and Dewey - It's A Beautiful Day Glad - Traffic California - John Mayall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 Oregon used to all be in the Paul Winter Consort . I saw them at Royce Hall UCLA back in the late '70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chutzpah Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 yeah..."Miles Davis" I don't really know if that's acid jazz...but good stuff...it's trippy... I think one is called "Sketches of Spain" Also check out "George Duke" and anything by "Weather Report"...not trippy or heavy but good jazz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted November 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 "Miles Davis" I don't really know if that's acid jazz I would bet that it's not acid jazz is a fusion of jazz with funk and electronic music... eg Jamiroquai ( Didjital Vibrations ) or St. Germain ( Land of... ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 Leon Thomas is best known for his work with Pharoah Sanders (who I saw back at Mandeville Auditorium USD San Diego back in '72). I remember him best for a 1971 album with saxophonist Oliver Nelson titled Live in Berlin with Oliver Nelson. Thomas was widely known for his yodeling as our ancestral fathers might have done. Says Perfect Sound Forever... "The 1960’s saw the rise of the incredible jazz-scat yodeler, Leon Thomas (“Creator Has a Master Planâ€). Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders described Thomas’s yodeling as “the moaning of spirits known and unknown.†Indeed, if any throat ever served as the stage for spirits - be they indigenous or alien - it was Thomas’s with his extended anthropo-logical “verbal energy.†Thomas once noted, “It surprises me, it does everything of its own volition. I call it Soularfone. The pygmies call it Umbo Weti… This voice is not me, my voice is ancient. This person you see before you is controlled by ego but my voice is egoless.†Thomas grew up in East St. Louis, studied music at Tennessee State University, and moved to New York in 1958. Thomas’s early career can be characterized as straight blues-jazz vocals, working with Mary Lou Williams and touring with Art Blakey. In January 1961, Thomas joined Count Basie and sang at the inaugural balls of both President Kennedy and President Johnson. However, he soon turned to more avant-garde stylings. His most famous work is with Pharoah Sanders on Karma (1969) and Jewels of Thought (1970). In 1969, on “Creator Has a Master Plan,†he sang a scat-yodel with wild fluctuations between glottal and mellifluous vocables that instantly affected me. This was a man in search of soul." source Here's an excellent example of Oliver Nelson's dynamite alto sax along with Leon's unique delivery in a favorite song of mine... Pharoah's Tune ( The Journey) / Echoes part 1 Pharoah's Tune ( The Journey) / Echoes part 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted November 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 just read today that Blue Note Records is celebrating their 70th anniversary this year some cool pictures for those who are interested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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